{"id":124253,"date":"2019-05-10T10:38:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T14:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=124253"},"modified":"2019-05-10T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:01:11","slug":"video-bates-baseball-keeps-things-seriously-fun-heading-into-nescac-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/10\/video-bates-baseball-keeps-things-seriously-fun-heading-into-nescac-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: In march to NESCAC playoffs, baseball keeps things seriously fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates baseball team put together its best NESCAC East season in program history this year, finishing with a record of 9-3.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, we traveled to Brunswick to cover the Bobcats&#8217; twin bill vs. Bowdoin. Needing one win to clinch a spot in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nescac.com\/sports\/bsb\/2018-19\/championship\/index\">four-team, double elimination NESCAC tourney<\/a>, Bates won both.<\/p>\n<section class=\"highlight-box \"><\/p>\n<h6>Baseball livestream<\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsnsports.net\/conferences\/nescac\/?bfplayvid=123166\">Watch the Bobcats take on Williams<\/a>\u00a0at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 11, in the NESCAC Championships.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&#8220;You know everybody was locked in from the moment we woke up,&#8221; said sophomore Christian Beal of Flossmoor, Ill. &#8220;When this team needs a win, we find a way to win, and that\u2019s special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>Needing one win vs. Bowdoin last weekend to clinch a spot in the NESCAC tourney, Bates got two, and had some fun along the way:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bates College Baseball: Seriously fun\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qEAKhM1EOPM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Justin White &#8217;19 of\u00a0Whitesboro, N.Y., is a special story in his own right. When White was a first-year, he got cut from the team. He made the squad as a sophomore but didn&#8217;t record his first collegiate hit until mid-April last season.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he&#8217;s one of the key reasons Bates&#8217; offense is much-improved this season, ranking <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eighth in the NESCAC with a .536 slugging percentage in conference games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s an example for guys, anybody out there that\u2019s really struggling with playing time and not getting in and not getting the results that you want, to stick with it and push through and work hard and it will eventually pan out,&#8221; said head coach Jon Martin.<\/p>\n<p>White&#8217;s &#8220;crazy journey&#8221; to the starting lineup is just one of many story lines to watch this weekend at the NESCAC tournament in Waterville, Maine.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>Cut from the team as a first-year, Justin White &#8217;19 has come on strong:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Justin White&#039;s &quot;crazy journey&quot; to Bates baseball&#039;s starting lineup\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eng94R-FzUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bobcats completed their best NESCAC East season in program history this year, finishing 9-3.\u00a0Find out what makes the team so special. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":124271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"The Bates baseball team put together its best NESCAC East season in program history this year, finishing with a record of 9-3.\u00a0Learn more about what makes this year's team so special before you watch the Bobcats take on Williams Friday at 2:30pm in the NESCAC Championships.","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,11012],"tags":[10854,1306,6365,6368],"class_list":["post-124253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-student-life","tag-baseball","tag-bates-college-baseball","tag-nescac","tag-nescac-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124253"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124387,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124253\/revisions\/124387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}